> running a homelab is a nonsensical I think a lot of people build a homelab to learn about technologies and get realworld experience deploying them. That was

> running a homelab is a nonsensical I think a lot of people build a homelab to learn about technologies and get realworld experience deploying them. That was what drove mine for a couple of years. Once you’ve mastered servers and networking and so on, then it just becomes a fun hobby, I agree there. But someone who wants to get into networking and the like (and who lacks experience) is definitely going to need to practice with real or simulated networks to get good at it.